Tom Ricks offers a Best Defense guest post to Nicholas Murray, a professor at the Army’s Command and Staff College who blasts the school’s bloated curriculum. If the school is to succeed, Murray says, it must strip down its schedule and rebuild it along the lines of good graduate-school programs.

Warlord’s Quote of the Day

“It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition.” — Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham

Contributed by Col. (ret.) Cliff Krieger, a former JCS strategic chief. From a list compiled by the Warlord Loop, a private email forum for national security experts.